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Originally Posted by mhays
Induced demand is a real thing...it seems to be nearing the "smoking kills" and "humans are causing climate change" level of agreement among experts.
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I'm sure everybody agrees with "making transportation easier means people take more trips". But not everybody agrees that "making transportation easier means people take more trips" is automatically a bad thing when it happens to be cars.
So what if a new freeway fills up as long there are more passenger-miles and ton-miles of goods being carried than before.